Dr. Ndidiya Maka Amutah-Onukagha

Programs like March of Dimes, Better Starts are bringing prenatal care directly to families in places like Washington, D.C. and Ohio, places where traditional service models may no longer exist in certain parts of those places. And it's also an important step towards making care more accessible. We're also seeing the opening of birth centers.

Programs like March of Dimes, Better Starts are bringing prenatal care directly to families in places like Washington, D.C. and Ohio, places where traditional service models may no longer exist in certain parts of those places. And it's also an important step towards making care more accessible. We're also seeing the opening of birth centers.

We're doing a lot of advocacy around that here in Massachusetts, really trying to be very clear with our legislators about why we need more birthing centers in the state. We only have one open birthing center right now. I'm actually on the board of another one that we're trying to get our doors open called Neighborhood Birth Center here in Boston that's fighting an uphill battle.

We're doing a lot of advocacy around that here in Massachusetts, really trying to be very clear with our legislators about why we need more birthing centers in the state. We only have one open birthing center right now. I'm actually on the board of another one that we're trying to get our doors open called Neighborhood Birth Center here in Boston that's fighting an uphill battle.

We're doing a lot of advocacy around that here in Massachusetts, really trying to be very clear with our legislators about why we need more birthing centers in the state. We only have one open birthing center right now. I'm actually on the board of another one that we're trying to get our doors open called Neighborhood Birth Center here in Boston that's fighting an uphill battle.

These birthing centers are a ship. They offer a more personalized, midwifery-led approach that many families find comforting, empowering, and reassuring.

These birthing centers are a ship. They offer a more personalized, midwifery-led approach that many families find comforting, empowering, and reassuring.

These birthing centers are a ship. They offer a more personalized, midwifery-led approach that many families find comforting, empowering, and reassuring.

Some of the work that we're doing here at the center is tied through advocacy and being a huge proponent and a huge part of why we got the Massachusetts Maternal Health Mom Bus passed in August 2024, which is helping to peel back some of our very outdated regulations, which is going to make it easier to both build and operate birth centers here in the Massachusetts Commonwealth.

Some of the work that we're doing here at the center is tied through advocacy and being a huge proponent and a huge part of why we got the Massachusetts Maternal Health Mom Bus passed in August 2024, which is helping to peel back some of our very outdated regulations, which is going to make it easier to both build and operate birth centers here in the Massachusetts Commonwealth.

Some of the work that we're doing here at the center is tied through advocacy and being a huge proponent and a huge part of why we got the Massachusetts Maternal Health Mom Bus passed in August 2024, which is helping to peel back some of our very outdated regulations, which is going to make it easier to both build and operate birth centers here in the Massachusetts Commonwealth.

We're also seeing greater access to doulas in certain parts of the country, more lactation consultants, more community health workers who are really here to support pregnancy, labor, and postpartum recovery. I think in places like Arizona, for instance, there's a program that's helping make sure that people are tackling transportation barriers.

We're also seeing greater access to doulas in certain parts of the country, more lactation consultants, more community health workers who are really here to support pregnancy, labor, and postpartum recovery. I think in places like Arizona, for instance, there's a program that's helping make sure that people are tackling transportation barriers.

We're also seeing greater access to doulas in certain parts of the country, more lactation consultants, more community health workers who are really here to support pregnancy, labor, and postpartum recovery. I think in places like Arizona, for instance, there's a program that's helping make sure that people are tackling transportation barriers.

So they're helping people get safely to their appointments. In my hometown of Trenton, New Jersey, they're breaking ground on a birthing center program Trent is a very high need urban community with very high severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality and putting a lot of resources and money and advocacy behind it. This is what we need.

So they're helping people get safely to their appointments. In my hometown of Trenton, New Jersey, they're breaking ground on a birthing center program Trent is a very high need urban community with very high severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality and putting a lot of resources and money and advocacy behind it. This is what we need.

So they're helping people get safely to their appointments. In my hometown of Trenton, New Jersey, they're breaking ground on a birthing center program Trent is a very high need urban community with very high severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality and putting a lot of resources and money and advocacy behind it. This is what we need.

This is how you focus on community-based solutions and meet people at their place of need. And we know that People are seeking to get what they need to change their circumstances.

This is how you focus on community-based solutions and meet people at their place of need. And we know that People are seeking to get what they need to change their circumstances.

This is how you focus on community-based solutions and meet people at their place of need. And we know that People are seeking to get what they need to change their circumstances.